If you purchase a new computer you will just have to contact us and we'll send you another license for free. We do this to prevent people to give away licenses and to install the software on other people's computers.

About the OCR you are correct, it is only included in the Pro version.

There is a 50% off discount as well on the Pro version (if you click on the Buy Now link you have the choice between the 2 versions).

For any version the minor and medium upgrades are free. Only the major upgrades will come with a cost.

If you buy the Home version and decide to buy the Pro later you will have a dicount corresponding to the price you paid for the Home version: for instance if you buy the Home version during the deal at 24.99 USD and later you want to buy the Pro version, you will pay 124.01 USD (149 - 24.99).

Brian HHi- I find your product very interesting! I love scanning/editing/saving documents and also do lots of work in graphic arts. It looks like you have a lot of features, but I have to say your price for "pro" version seems high to me, for such a new program. I currently use Paperport (am a long-time user) and am ready to make an upgrade to their newest version. They are quoting me $99 for upgrade, as previous user, and their program has been around now for a long time. How do you see your program comparing to Paperport Professional, and do you offer anything they don't currently have in their most recent version- I believe it is v. 14 now. Thanks. :-)

Here is what Loïc said about the difference between PaperScan and Paperport last time we had a promotion on BitsDuJour:

"PaperScan advantage is the easy way to handle acquisition & document manipulation. Since we are document imaging experts, we provides very good filters to increase image quality. IE: Punch hole removal, autodeskew, We can also create searchable PDF document. Also our colour image manipulation should be faster. Also, are a flexible & dynamic company and we will be happy to provide new features, for free, on simple demand."

Also I would like to add that even if PaperScan is a relatively new software, it is powered by GdPicture imaging technologies (also owned by our company ORPALIS), which have been around since 2003.

Michael KI understand the need for developers to try to prevent unauthorized copies but it seems rather restrictive and expensive for the user to not allow installation on a PC and laptop since so many legitimate users have both.

Other companies (like Paperport since we were just mentioning it earlier) have the same licensing model: one license per computer. Selling licenses with unlimited installation is just impossible to manage.

But you're right, a lot of people have both a laptop and a PC so installing the software on all the computers owned can be useful.

We're going to add multiple licenses packages to allow the use of several computers.

HJ B1. Does this product permit the efficient correction of OCR errors? If so, can you give us a brief summary of that process?

2. Can this product be used in association with the native scanning interface of the scanner? If so, is that transparently, visibly or both?

3. For people who have the pro version of Adobe Acrobat, can this product work in conjunction with that or are they actually competing products. If they are competing, are there any clear advantages that this has over Adobe Acrobat pro, which has a scanner interface?

4. I have a scanner and several computers all on one LAN. It appears from prior comments that your policy would require a license for each of the computers. Is that correct? Notably, Adobe Acrobat permit two or three computers to on one license.

Eddie TexAccording to the product comparison, it appears that the home edition does not support "Image processing during batch acquisition: Auto-Deskew, Rotation, borders removal, Holes punch removal, negative."

Is it that it can't be done in batch acquisition but can be done individually to scan after acquisition? Or is this feature only available in the professional edition?

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5) Can the transforms, filters, and conversion settings to be applied be named and saved so they can be reused easily?

6) How much can the scanning and conversion process be automated?
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Paperscan automatically remember the filters applied during scanning. I am taking about the batch image processing feature that you can reach by clicking the "batch image processing" button of the scanning wizard.
Therefore, you can:
1- Start a scanning session
2- Select your filters (IE: autodeskew + autocrop)
3- Exit PaperScan
4- Take a coffee or a tea (or do something else)
5- Restart Paperscan
6- Start a new scanning session

At step 6: Paperscan will automatically select the filters selected in step 2.

@Michael K
If you have several computers used for personal usage, you can contact our sales team which can provide up to 3 access.

@HJ B
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1. Does this product permit the efficient correction of OCR errors? If so, can you give us a brief summary of that process?
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No, this is not supported.

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2. Can this product be used in association with the native scanning interface of the scanner? If so, is that transparently, visibly or both?
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Yes you can use the scanning interface provided by the TWAIN driver of the scanner by clicking on the "Advanced Device Options..." button on the scanning wizard form.

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3. For people who have the pro version of Adobe Acrobat, can this product work in conjunction with that or are they actually competing products. If they are competing, are there any clear advantages that this has over Adobe Acrobat pro, which has a scanner interface?
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PaperScan is a totally different product than Adobe Acrobat pro. There is almost no sense to make a comparison. To get more info about the PS features, you can read the product description on the top of this page or have a look on the official product page located here: http://www.orpalis.com/pr...paperscan/

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4. I have a scanner and several computers all on one LAN. It appears from prior comments that your policy would require a license for each of the computers. Is that correct? Notably, Adobe Acrobat permit two or three computers to on one license.
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We also deliver up to 3 access, on demand. (See my first reply to Michael).

1. In your most recent answer, concerning use from multiple computers to one scanner, you state that "We also deliver up to 3 access, on demand. (See my first reply to Michael)." I am not clear what that means. Will the purchase of one license allow that, or must there be three licenses to permit a three computers and one scanner to use the the program on a LAN?

2. You state "PaperScan is a totally different product than Adobe Acrobat pro." and so you do not attempt to compare the two. In fact, a subset of the Acrobat functions permits control of a scanner and the scanning and ocr of documents. My questions are: "A. Can Paper scan work in conjunction with Acrobat (as each of them can work in conjunction with the native interface); B. How does the Acrobat scanning and ocr capability compare to that of PaperScan? ". "I suppose I should go further and ask: If I have Acrobate X Pro is there an advantage to me also getting PaperScan?"

to Robert: yes, the Pro version also apply OCR to any image format (.jpg, .png, .pfd ...).

to John: in order for the PDF to be searchable, you need to save it as PDF/OCR and this option is only available in the Pro edition.
At the moment we do not intergrate PaperScan with online cloud services.

Jeff CarbelloI have reviewed this software a few weeks back and I suggested some features in the developers forum and reported a bug. Within one week they added some of my requested features and fixed the bug. Pretty responsive company.

I found the product excellent and the home version at this price is a very good deal for the features. Unlike other products in this area of document scanning, every feature worked perfect as advertised.

There manual deskew is very nice using a graphic live rotation of the document in the GUI. But I found the auto-deskew worked 90% of the time.

for 1, To install PaperScan on 3 different computers you will need 3 different licenses. When you order a license, you receive one key only. If you need one or two other you will have to contact us.

for 2, If you have Acrobate X Pro and need other features, try PaperScan to scan using WIA or apply our image processing features before or after OCR (also please keep in mind that we are using different OCR engine than Adobe). Indeed, PaperScan has nothing to do with Adobe Acrobat, neither in its target nor in its price range :-) ).

lisba fAnother question following my first one.
I imported to PaperScan one of my files (a PDF over 400 pages) and surprisingly all the pages appeared upside down (180%). In any case I tried Edit / Rotate to bring them back but I am not able to Select All (the thumbnails). Am I supposed to rotate them one by one?! Is this a bug or there must be an option for this, hidden to my eyes ?

In a previous post I said that the OCR worked with about any language since it's based on Google's Tesseract.I made a mistake: the language supported so far are:
English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Unfortunately you can't see that on our website, but on the software's interface only. We're going to add this in the description of the product, and we're also going to add a lot of other languages.

About the imported pdf with pages upside down, this is really strange because I just checked with some files and it is working fine. Maybe the rotation parameter was checked in the batch processing. You can send us your file on our platform support here:
http://support.gdpicture.com/so our tech team can have a look at it.

For your last question, once the files are scanned/imported you have to have to make the changes manually, as the batch processing only works during the document acquisition.

when using WIA drivers, the page size defaults to legal size and can't be changed. It seems that one would need TWAIN drivers for this functionality. Is this something that is going to be fixed? HP has been very sluggish releasing TWAIN drivers for Windows 7 x64 9at least for some of the older MFP's)
Please respond as I don't want to miss this deal over something that should be fixed shortly...

Phred EElodie,
You seem to have interesting software, and we're provided with a one-time licence - until we rebuild our machines.
So that we can get a renewed licence free from you... you have to still be in business.
This software lasts as long as you company exists, therefore, unless you have your licence algorithms registered in escrow with a substantial alternative business, probably a legal firm. Have you done such a thing?
Thanks.

jboothcoIt's the "eleventh hour" I know, but I am unable to get PaperScan Pro to work for me. I tried it a while back when I saw that it was going to be offered and have tried it again tonight. I am unable to use it with TWAIN at all and sometimes not with WIA. It crashes. If I select acquire image, the program simply crashes and disappears. Sometimes WIA works, but I could not set the page size which seemed fixed at some very small size.
I have a Canon LiDE 210 running with Windows 7 32 bit. It works fine with PaperPort and with other scanning programs, just not with PaperScan. At this point, it is too late to get support prior to being able to take advantage of this offer. I didn't see that it was offered until late this evening.
Hopefully, the problem will be resolved and this offered comes back again.

Please excuse us for not responding right away, but we're in a different time zone (France) and it was the middle of the night for us :-)

To Phred: Honestly, I don't know what our CEO dit about this, but I'm sure it's been taking care of.

To John: We just ordered your scanner to make some tests and see what's wrong. If you create a ticket on our support platform here:
http://support.gdpicture....ets/SubmitWe'll have your email to get back to you when the tests are done.

I would like to thank you all for your remarks and interest in PaperScan and we hope to renew this deal in the future.

Andreas HoffmannSummary after a few weeks: Paperscan fails to work with 2 out of 5 scanners. Support didn't gave a concrete answer/help/idea within 13 days! Only auto-mails from the ticket-system to close my ticket!
No more to say...

If you have several computers used for personal usage, you can contact our sales team which can provide up to 3 access. So if you change your computer you won't have to pay for a new license.

About upgrade policies, only major upgrades have a cost (for instance from version 1 to version 2), but minor and medium upgrades don't. We're currently under version 1.5. Upgrades are not mandatory, and you will be able to use a non upgraded software. Every license comes with a 6 months upgrade protection, which means that if version 2 is released in the 6 months after the license is bought, the upgrade will be for free. This clause exists in our other GdPicture products and it will be added on the PaperScan license agreement.

Jeff CarbelloI wanted to say that I once had issue with license manager, but the company responded very quickly to resolve (same day response). While I don't like license management in programs, it is nice that company offers up to 3 computers as most people have a laptop and PC.

Also wanted to say that this company is very responsive to customer feedback to improve the software. I just suggested some feedback to this company and within weeks they implemented the changes.

duane UserSome important features mentioned above are not available in the featured version. I tried the pro version evaluation and it worked OK but I thought it was too expensive to buy for its features. I would have liked a Word or RTF output.

Jeff CarbelloWhy would you want Word or RTF output. The whole point of PDF is that it is the common denominator. I hate when people email me documents cut and pasted into a Word document. What if someone does not have Word how do they see your documents. Also PDF provides features like security and the ability to restrict printing or edit the document. It is truly a better format for document output then Word.

I can understand perhaps wanting the ability to import a word document or page from a Word document to include inside a PDF created with other documents merged into a single PDF.

Perhaps you can explain your need for Word for output and why PDF is not an option for you.

Jeff CarbelloSo I could combine scans with additional information that will then be printed to PDF.

You can combine scans today into what is called a multi-page PDF. I scan various documents, import image, and then combine directly into a PDF with PaperScan. There is no need to "print to PDF" since you make the target the PDF. But not sure I understand what you mean by with additional information, so maybe I am missing your point.

Jeff CarbelloI looked at a lot of programs and 2 features that I love in PaperScan Pro are the ability to annotate the documents. And in both Pro and Home versions, I found the rotate image dialog to be a life saver. I can never get those thin store receipts to line up straight and sometimes auto-deskew does not work. With most programs you are stuck, but PaperScan offers a angle rotate which is cool because it shows a thumbnail of the image and as you move the slider it rotates the thumbnail so its every easy to line up and straighten crooked scans.

I wrote on the description to install the software for the first time in the 6 months after you bought it just to be sure that the software suits you, because we cannot accept refunds after all this time if it doesn't.

The software needs to be reinstalled for each upgrade, so yes, you can reinstall it anytime, but on the same computer.
If you have several computers used for personal usage, you can contact our sales team which can provide up to 3 access.

I have followed up on links, scoured the website (I like the style of the website!), and have not been able to find an actual side-by-side comparison of the Home and Pro versions. Where can I find one? A comparison matrix is the best way for me to evaluate up front which version (if either) would meet my needs, especially with a large price difference between the two.

Thanks a lot for your comment on our website! It's brand new!
You will find the comparison matrix on the pricing page here:
http://www.orpalis.com/pr...ricing.phpDo not hesitate to tell me if something is not clear in the matrix!

HJ BI have Acrobat X. Does the pro version have any features that are not present in Acrobat X? How do you claim that your OCR engine compares to Acrobat X? Do you have a better OCR correction capability than does Acrobat X?

"If you have Acrobate X Pro and need other features, try PaperScan to scan using WIA or apply our image processing features before or after OCR (also please keep in mind that we are using different OCR engine than Adobe). Indeed, PaperScan has nothing to do with Adobe Acrobat, neither in its target nor in its price range :-) )."

"PaperScan is a totally different product than Adobe Acrobat pro. There is almost no sense to make a comparison. To get more info about the PS features, you can read the product description on the top of this page or have a look on the official product page located here: http://www.orpalis.com/pr...atures.php

We do support 64 bit Windows 7. I suggest you to create a post on our forum with all the references you have (ex: scanner type, driver versions, files generating the issue, screenshots, hardware/software environment information, and so forth) so someone from our tech team can have a look at this.
Here is the link to the forum:
http://forums.orpalis.com...pport.html

Michael GibsonI've enjoyed using the free version. I installed the pro version today as a trial prior to making a decision on purchase, but I can't figure out how to activate the OCR feature. A related comment is that there doesn't seem to be much in the way of a help file.

To use the OCR feature it is really simple: when you save your documents, check the box "Save as PDF/OCR" and select the language of your text. Then when your file is saved on your computer, just open it, hit the keys "CRTL" and "F" on your keyboard and a box will appear on your file. Type the words you want to retrieve in this box.

I'm sorry but once again about the six months:
Am I allowed to change the computer after the mentioned 6 monts? Will you deactivate the software on the outdated one and (more important ;) activate it on the new one?
Otherwise it was too expensive for me as I do change computers every other year...

bvssunnydaleHi, I have Acrobat 9 & 10 (different machines) but based on the screen shots it seems to have the ability to "clean up" images (like the dark gutter in the center of an open book scan, or the b&w photo scan). I would think for that alone it would be worth while - but I'm wondering if you consider these features better than the ones already built into Acrobat X? The OCR feature isn't important to me (because I already have it). Thx for any help you can provide.

Jeff EaslickI want a program that will allow me to scan/import and create searchable pdf documents so I downloaded your Pro Version. I just scanned a typed document and selected the option to save as PDF/OCR. When I attempted to search the page, however, it was not searchable. Is there something you could tell me to correct this? I am using an Epson V30 scanner and I'm using PDF XChange Viewer Pro to view the saved document.

Thanks a lot for your nice comment! :-)
I'm glad that you still enjoy the PaperScan features! In the lateste version we added the Automatic Color Detection to reduce the size of the saved documents, I don't know if you had the chance to try it yet: http://www.orpalis.com/bl...documents/

There's two different protocols : TWAIN and WIA and PaperScan support both of them. Your scanner device driver is TWAIN compliant to support TWAIN-compliant software so PaperScan will work, it's guaranteed.

When you selected the "save as PDF/OCR" function, did you select the language of the text? You can choose between: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Also make sure that the text is not rotated or is hard to read because of shadows (it can be the case with sacnned photocopies).
If it still doesn't work, I suggest you to create a post on our technical forum here: http://forums.orpalis.com...pport.htmlwith the following information: scanner type, driver versions, files generating the issue, screenshots, hardware/software environment information.

The idea behind PaperScan is totally different than Acrobat's goal:
PaperScan is made for people who have a scanner, but who don't have a full featured software to go with it.
For instance we have the case of several people who got a used scanner which didn't have a software with it and they didn't know which software to choose from in the crowd of the many scanning softwares available.
Or for people who don't know under which protocol (TWAIN or WIA) their scanner is running. PaperScan works with both.
Or for people who want a very simple software to use (we tried to make it as intuitive as possible) but with still a lot of functionalities in the document processing and management, without paying as much as for an Acrobat license...

To answer your question I don't know if the PaperScan features are better than the one in Acrobat since I don't own an Acrobat license. However I use PaperScan on a daily basis and the features are sufficient for my needs (you can see my blog article about this here: http://www.orpalis.com/bl...paperscan/ )
PaperScan is powered by the GdPicture imaging technologies (www.gdpicture.com) which are considered very powerful by professional of the document imaging domains http://www.gdpicture.com/company.php

I hope this answered your questions a bit! If not, do not hesitate to ask!

Loïc, the creator of PaperScan, wrote you an answer but for some reason it takes a while for it to appear on this page.

But to answer your question, of course if you change your computer you won't have to buy a new licence :-)
When you change your computer, you will just have to contact our sales team to explain the situation and we will give you a new key.

@Frants:
"Am I allowed to change the computer after the mentioned 6 monts? "
Yes, of course!

"Will you deactivate the software on the outdated one and (more important ;) activate it on the new one? "
We do not have deactivation process yet. This will be automated in our next version during the uninstall process.
For now, just contact our sales team for such purpose. At anytime, we will be to reset your license on simple request.

In all case, you will be able to install the software on 3 different machines, without time limitation. If you reach your 3 machines installations and if X of them are not used anymore, as I said above: just contact us for a reset.

Joe McCormickI see that on your website you have three versions of your Paper Scan program. Can I install all three of these programs at the same time without them interfering with each other? I can read about the differences between the three programs, but I would rather see them in action.

@Joe, Yes you can install the 3 versions without any problem. Anyway, if you are looking for a kind of comparison matrix, just check my answer to Danny. If you have any doubt, just ask, we are here to help!

DannyBut inconvenient for me to be able to choose between Home and Pro! Home is more suitable for home user (personal, private) and Pro for businesses (business), that I actually leads off by large price differences between these two, I have it right?

Joe McCormickI tried installing all three of your programs on my computer. None of the installs would let me choose my "D" drive for the install location. Everything defaulted to the "C" drive. I could find no way to put your programs on my "D" drive. Do you have a way that I can install this on the drive of my choosing?

http://www.orpalis.com/pr...n-home.php"The Home Edition of PaperScan Scanner Software is a light-weight version of PaperScan allowing users with everyday scanning and processing needs to accomplish their tasks via a really affordable application."

http://www.orpalis.com/pr...an-pro.php"The Professional Edition of PaperScan Scanner Software is the most complete Edition providing professional end-users with all features needed in document (image and PDF) acquisition, processing and efficient storage domains."

I'm not sure I understand your question, could you please be more specific? Do you want to save several pages in the same file? To do that, once all your documents are scanned, when you save you need to choose the option "save all pages in the same multipage file".

Colin McAllisterPaperscan team
Hi. I downloaded the Pro trial and installed, but I can't see where the OCR is - can you advise please?

Inital thought: the interface looks ugly.
There are options at both the top and bottom of the page, although there is plenty of space to put them all at the top.

On both my monitor screens, "zoom in" is on the left - it appears to have "wrapped" onto another line and is partly obscured by the status bar - but there is a zoom dropdown. selector on the right of the screen.

All the zoom selectors would (and IMHO should) easily fit onto the main toolbar at the top. Thanks.

Jeff CarbelloI use this program alot and its just great. Did extensive research and tried alot of others and this was always the best. The auto-deskew function, crop, angle rotate, contrast stretch, etc - all are things you might not find in other scanning programs. The company is very responsive to customer suggestions and in fact the annotation feature was something I had suggested and they did a great job adding it. Look forward to seeing more improvements in future like page numbering and some meta-data support like keywords.

Great team and great product. You can't go wrong with a great deal like this. Very satisfied customer.

I have an answer for Joe:
For the next version you will be able to choose the drive you want for the installation.

@Colin, for OCR, when you save your document you need to choose the option "Save as PDF/OCR".

For your remarks about the interface, I've transfered them to our team for their information.

@Jeff, thank you so much for your support :-) and we haven't forgotten about posting a roadmap for PaperScan! We were busy with the release of our new free PDF compression software the past weeks (for any of you who might be interested: http://www.orpalis.com/pr...r-free.php).

Kelly MajorI seem to have a problem with the trial. I choose to acquire image and it launches the crappy Epson scan software (is this right?) and it does the scan. The problem is then it is just stuck, there is no way out. I can't close, no save, can't go back to PaperScan Pro window. My only option is to kill PSP.

My printer is an Epson WP-4540.

I must be missing something or doing something wrong. Any advice on how to resolve this?

HJ BEvery scanner I have seen comes with scanning software. Generally that software includes an OCR engine. Adobe Acrobat includes a scanner interface with an OCR engine.

What is the difference between this program (home - no ocr; pro - ocr) and typical scanner software that is bundled with scanners? Aside from price, what is the difference between this software and the Adobe Acrobat scanning facility?

Is this software capable of reaching across a LAN to operate a scanner that is attached to another computer?

Bob LevyI have a Xerox DocuMate 152 and purchased upgraded software:
Paperport 14 and OmniPage Professional 18.0.
As I am always looking for a better (easier and faster) way to manage my scanning activities, can you provide a comparision or reason to use Paperscan?

how do I have to understand
"PaperScan may be used indefinitely" vs.
"Email license activation is required." in conjuction with "You must install/register the software within 6 months, and cannot do so afterwards."
Does that mean I cannot transfer the license to a different machine after 6 months? Or does it just mean the first install/activation has to take place within 6 months but I can deactivate the actual machine and activate another machine later on?

I just installed the trial in a VMWare virtual machine (plain XPSP3ENU, 1000% sure you software was never before installed at) but right after starting I get:
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Critical error
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Your 1 month trial key has expired. Please contact the software producer to renew your trial period or to acquire a commercial license.
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Yes No
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Do you have a 30 days money back guarantee or how would I test the software w/o damaging the host system?

Rich OBrienI just tried the PaperScan Home Edition. I've used other OCR programs but I can find nothing in PaperScan Home Edition for doing OCR. And when I go to http://www.orpalis.com/pr...ricing.php and look at the comparison of features, it says the Home Edition cannot save to PDF or OCR files.
Where are the OCR controls? What good is an OCR program that can do Optical Character Recognition but not save its OCR work?

I meanwhile tested and OCR (German language) is by far not as good as the OCR built into Microsoft Document Imaging (part of M$ Office), besides when saving as PDF/OCR it saves every single page as single PDF whereas I can save multi-page TIFs with M$DI.

Not what I paid 75$ for when having the better M$ product for free (office is already paid). Sorry@ORPALIS

DrTeethYou say there is a comparison matrix. All I can find at buttons leading to different pages detailing the features - too labourious to use. A 'matrix' is all products in a table so one can easily see the differences.

PaperScan is on top of all a scanning software. Commercial versions are available under two distinct editions, one optimized for home usage and another one for professional usage. The comparison matrix between different PaperScan editions can be found here: http://www.orpalis.com/pr...ricing.php

Lisa HERMELINE@Kelly Major, the Quick scan can help to bypass the device's driver GUI. If not (this can append with some TWAIN drivers), you can try to use the WIA protocol. This can be done by clicking Options / Acquisition standards / WIA.

Lisa HERMELINE@Dieter Maler, maybe I am missing something but I think you are making confusion between PaperScan and another product because your assertions about our licensing terms are totally false.

DannyWhy does PaperScan Home version these features "Auto-deskew, rotation, border removal, hole punch removal, negative: batch mode.Automatic blank page removal. " not available? These are also important for home user. Or am I wrong?

lisba fA question about AutoDesckew.
In home edition there are 2 options of this feature almost (to me) identical. One says Yes (included) the other says No (not included). What's the difference between the two kinds of AutoDeskew?

Jeff Carbello@lisabf and Danny - I also was confused by their matrix on these features and suggested that they make the matrix more clear.

Both product versions have these features, the difference is that the Pro version allows you to use these in batch mode and auto apply them. The Home version only allows these to be applied manually via the menu options after each page scan, hence labeled in matrix as post processing.

I have Pro version but always prefer to apply these manually anyways since I don't have scanner that supports batch scanning and I like to see the results and undo if I do not like.

Keep in mind for batch, you need a special scanner anyways that has the ability to feed multiple documents at once to scanner to scan in batch.

Jeff Carbello@HJ B - My scanner is 4 years old now but top of the line Canon. But the software that came out of the box did not have any features like auto-deskew or ability to combine scans to PDF. I know that newer scanner software allows for a scan to PDF and possible scan multiple items to PDF. So perhaps there is not alot, but for me the Pro version gave me annotations which was awesome and the interface is very nice to use.

Personally I am a fan of how the company is responsive to add user requests to the program via their feedback forum.

Rich OBrienDon't waste your money on PaperScan without first downloading and trying the software. They say this is OCR software. I can find no evidence that PaperScan Professional can do Optical Character Recognition. Correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't uninstalled the software from my computer.
I used Revo Uninstaller to remove PaperScan Home Edition which has no OCR capabilities. I downloaded, installed and tried PaperScan Professional OCR and even though it says it is the Professional version, it is identical to the Home Edition in that neither has OCR capabilities. I looked on the Help Menu. PaperScan provides no help on its Help Menu. $74.50 may be half price but it is no bargain for software that can't actually do any OCR.

Joe McCormickTo Rich OBrien. I found that the Pro version will only do OCR when you save the scanned file to PDF. In my opinion this is not true OCR. If it was you could save the file in a txt or rtf file. With the saved PDF file, it is now searchable.

Joe McCormickIf anyone is having trouble with their scanner in the Pro version as I did, Go to Options, then select Extras. On theTwain Optitions tab, go to Data Source Manager. Mine was set to the Twain 2.2 setting. I can only scan in preview mode before the program would lock up on me. I would have to use the Task Manager to close Paper Scan. I then open the program again and went went into the option setting again to the Data Source Manager and change the Twain setting 1.9. After I made that change, my scanner worked with no problem. I also made this setting change in the other two programs.

Joe McCormickThis is an update to my previous post.
One other thing I have noticed with the Pro version is that once I made that change from 2.1 to 1.9, my scanner works fine. I then opened up my PaperPort 12 program and tried to do a scan, but I would get a message saying that PaperPort 12 was unable to communicate with the scanner. Turning the scanner off and then on did not fix the problem. The only way I found to fix this problem was to reboot my computer. Because of this conflict I now know I will not be buying Paper Scan.

Gerald Montgomery@Antoosa The Pro version I downloaded yesterday was not working for the OCR Save in Windows 8. But the latest version, (they updated it today) does work. I had to uninstall yesterday's version and reinstall the latest download.
The Home version doesn't include the OCR capability. That was working for me yesterday in Windows 8.
I suggest you try it to be sure that it'll work on your system.

DennisWe receive forms from people, want to scan and process them, but while OCR handles text, most do not handle bubble-marks. Does your software handle optical mark recognition, as well as optical character recognition?

I tried the Paper Scan Pro program again this morning. It told me that there was a new update to version 1.8.4. I downloaded the program. When I went to install it, it told me that I had another version installed, which was 1.8.3 and told me to uninstall it which I did. I then went to install the new version. To my amazement the change had already been made to allow me to install the program on any drive or directory of my choosing. Thanks Paper Scan Pro people for making that change.

Previously I mentioned that my scanner did not work in the default Twain 2.2 setting. I had to change it to the 1.9 Twain setting to get the scanner to work. With this latest version of the Paper Scan Pro, I was able to use the scanner in the default Twain 2.2 setting with no problem with my scanner. As mentioned before I also had a problem when running Paper Scan Pro, that if I tried to run my scanner in another program, it would not work unless I rebooted my computer. With the new install I was able to run two other scanning programs with no problems after scanning with Paper Scan Pro program.

Joe McCormickI did not buy any Paper Scan software. It did not work any better for me then the software that I already have. I have only used the Paper Scan trial programs. If I were to buy, I would buy the Pro version because of the ability to save a file in a searchable PDF. I saw no need for the home version. When the trial period ends I will remove the Pro version from my computer.

Joe McCormickDanny, I am using Abbyy Finereader version 6 for OCR. I got this version free when I bought my Epson scanner about five years ago, and it works great, I've used it on Windows XP, Windows 7 and now Windows 8. Someday I may upgrade to the newest version 11 but for now version 6 is all I need. It does recognize a whole bunch of different languages. It will also save the file in different formats, such as WordPerfect, Microsoft Word and plain text files. I am not too familiar with the program Readiris Pro 14. I think a few years ago I did use the trial version and wasn't impressed with the results. I just went to the website and signed up to get a trial version of it to see what it can do. Two other OCR programs I used in the past were OmniPage and Type Reader
Type Reader was by far my favorite because of its accuracy in recognizing text. OmniPage, I found to be too complicated for my needs. Version 15 was the last one I used. I think the current version is 18.

Two of the shortcomings that I saw with Paper Scan Pro was that you can only save file a file in PDF format or tiff format or a jb2 which is a format that I am not familiar with. I also could not find a way to import a text file and then save it to searchable PDF.

Keep looking Danny, and I'm sure you will find a program that was needs.

- Import or scan you document.
- When you want to save it, click on "Save"
- In the saving wizard, select "Save as PDF/OCR"
- When you open your document, to search for words, hit the keys Ctrl+F and you will have the search box displayed on your page.

Please note that to use the OCR you will need a resolution of 200 DPI minimum.

John LaymanThis has deal has been a real frustration. Tried throughout the day to buy the Pro version, only to have Digital River crap out a various points in the course of the transaction. Finally made it all the way through, but download of the registration key doesn't work -- land at various different pages. Don't think I've EVER had a trouble-free purchase involving Digital River. Anyway, what do I need to do to get an actual registration key?

The OCR feature is to make a PDF searchable, meaning that you can find a specific word in a PDF file.

This option is activated in the Pro edition. To enable it, once you've scanned you document, you need to save it as PDF/OCR (File/Save/Save as PDF-OCR).

Once your file is saved, when you open it you'll be able to search words within it. To search a word, you need to type the Ctrl + F keys: a search bar will open and you can enter the words you need to search.

TazzieWell, it is already past my bed time and I'm not inclined to wait another 50 min or so waiting to see if someone is going to bother to answer questions here. Too bad, cos I was considering the professional version, but without certain answers, not worth the risk.

Jim BuchananI know that this is a real simple question and does nothing for my esteem but I'm going to ask anyway. In the fine print it states these two things:
1 "PaperScan is licensed per user, so if more people are going to use PaperScan you will need to purchase additional copies."
2 - "Each license allows installation on a single computer and a laptop."
So my questions are based on 'wanting to clear things up for me and me alone'. They do not reflect anybody else at this time. So here goes:
- If it is licensed per user then technically if the person has more than one computer and a laptop then why not two that he owns and a laptop? To understand that question you have to also contend with the other question and comment below it.
- Is a Laptop a computer? It has a motherboard, ram, drives with memory, USB ports, etc and virtually anything a desktop computer has but is mobile. I can also be plugged into the wall. Now if it is a computer then does it not conflict with the first question.
And then there is WiFi. So you have your 2nd computer synced with your first computer (and laptop) and tell the printer which may be actually plugged into the first computer [via a cord] to scan the document. Is that not against item one? Okay that's over with. That has been on my mind for a while and I just felt ornery enough to ask it..
My next and more worthy question is - Is the pro version also on sale? And does it have the same restrictions?

Our EULA applies for each version of PaperScan.
PaperScan is licensed per user, however if you want to register the software on a few devices (laptop, family computer...), you just have to notify to our sales team so we can arrange it.
You can submit a ticket, here is the direct link: https://support.orpalis.c...ts/Submit/PaperScan does work well with WiFi.
The Professional edition is also on sale (49% off the standard price only today): http://www.bitsdujour.com.../in=searchDo not hesitate to contact us if you need anything.

Jim BuchananOkay, You sold me on the program however, and there always seems to be a forever. I have just tried to order the pro version and after pressing 'continue' in Paypal and being sent back to your registration page telling me that the postal code and province don't match up 3 times I am a bit worried? Did I just get duped out of money for nothing. Yes, I'm ticked. i know how to get my Province and I also know the Postal Area Code. Your program would not accept that I knew. Now with only an hour and a half before I hit the hay I doubt if I'll be getting anything.
{Picture steam coming out of my collar under pressure.}
There is 4 hours and 37 minutes left but it is 11:25 pm here and I'll probably be in bed before long so the time stamp is a little shorter. I'll check back in an hour.

Jim BuchananI tried to submit a ticket at https://support.orpalis.c...ts/Submit/ but I have to sign in in order to do that. At this point I do not have an account there. I guess I'm out of luck. Here's hoping that BitsDuJour can get as good a deal in the future. Good night.